Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached at Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, on Sunday September 25, and Sunday October 2, 1808; with Copious Supplementary NotesF. Hodson, 1809 - 284 páginas |
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... kind , and used upon the most trifling occasions , and uttered in the most daring manner , is truly shocking . * 7. To these must be added the very frequent and profane use of Scripture language , and of words appropriated almost ...
... kind , and used upon the most trifling occasions , and uttered in the most daring manner , is truly shocking . * 7. To these must be added the very frequent and profane use of Scripture language , and of words appropriated almost ...
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... kind of affront to go about to examine it by the severe rules of truth and good reason ; whereby it ap- pears , that it consists in something that is not perfectly conformable to them . " * This may serve to give some general idea of ...
... kind of affront to go about to examine it by the severe rules of truth and good reason ; whereby it ap- pears , that it consists in something that is not perfectly conformable to them . " * This may serve to give some general idea of ...
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... kind of contrast or coincidence : and how a man of nice moral feeling may abhor , what one less delicate , or more hardened , may only laugh at : or how even the same man may be differently affected in different states of his nerves ...
... kind of contrast or coincidence : and how a man of nice moral feeling may abhor , what one less delicate , or more hardened , may only laugh at : or how even the same man may be differently affected in different states of his nerves ...
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... kind not very serious . " * ( Dr. Hey , p . 455. ) Of the same nature are the other images made use of by our Saviour , in this address to the Scribes and Pharisees , where he represents them " as making clean the out- side of the cup ...
... kind not very serious . " * ( Dr. Hey , p . 455. ) Of the same nature are the other images made use of by our Saviour , in this address to the Scribes and Pharisees , where he represents them " as making clean the out- side of the cup ...
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... kind of confusion often interrupts mutual raillery , when the person , who is confused , would , after a very short interval , shew an earnest desire to continue it . " ( Ditto , p . 452. ) These appear to be the principal uses of wit ...
... kind of confusion often interrupts mutual raillery , when the person , who is confused , would , after a very short interval , shew an earnest desire to continue it . " ( Ditto , p . 452. ) These appear to be the principal uses of wit ...
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